Recently, a team of experts commissioned by the UN published a report which confirmed what many who have been witnessing the Israeli genocide in Palestine have known for years: Israel is deliberately targeting children in Gaza. “The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces,” said Srinivasan Muralidhar, Chair of the Commission. “Even after the October 2025 ceasefire, children continue to be killed and seriously injured, with continued disregard by Israel for the ceasefire and for the protection owed to Palestinian children under international law.”
The report goes on to state that Israel has intentionally inflicted “severe physical and mental injuries, mass trauma, orphanhood, separation, disability, repeated displacements, starvation, and the collapse of education and healthcare” on the children of Gaza, violences which will go on to affect the survivors for the rest of their lives:
“Palestinian children have been arrested and subjected to torture and other severe forms of mistreatment in Israeli prisons and detention facilities, with no information on their whereabouts. Israeli security forces have also used sexual violence against children as part of the collective shaming and oppression, entrenched within a prolonged, ethnic, gendered, and intergenerational pattern of Israeli occupation and hostilities.As a law firm that fights for the rights of all children, particularly children with disabilities, we are disgusted by this. Our practice intersects with the plight of Palestinian children in every way: the systems which continue to oppress and dehumanize marginalized children here in the U.S. are materially and ideologically linked to the same systems which are committing such genocidal acts of violence in Palestine. UNICEF has described the Gaza Strip as “the most dangerous place in the world to be a child,” and the genocide in Gaza has come to be known as the largest mass-disabling events of the century. No child should have to go through such horrors. We at Hirji, Chau & Rodriguez LLP believe that all children deserve the right to a healthy life full of potential, and we will continue to use our voices to fight for them, here and in Palestine.
Israel’s targeting of neonatal and maternity care centers in Gaza have directly harmed the survival of newborns and Palestinians’ reproductive future, including rises in miscarriages, birth defects and lasting vulnerabilities among newborns, resulting in the destruction of Palestinian newborn life and the population’s continuity. Starvation imposed by Israel through blockade and siege have further caused the death of Palestinian children and severely impacted the health of many others, depriving them of essential nutrition and increasing disease risks amid reduced immunization, food insecurity and destroyed health services.”
If you haven’t already, we urge you to read the report itself. It is heartbreaking but important.
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